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Mike Coolbaugh
On July 22, 2007, Mike Coolbaugh was hit and killed by a foul ball while coaching first base for the Tulsa Drillers, the Colorado Rockies' Double-A affiliate. The death of this quintessential baseball "lifer" was a grim reminder of the dangers too often taken for granted in the game. This tragedy has affected numerous people in addition to Coolbaugh's wife and three children, including Tino Sanchez, who hit the ball that killed him, and Bill Valentine, the game's announcer, who coincidentally was the umpire behind the plate 40 years earlier when Red Sox star Tony Conigliaro was struck in the face by a pitch and badly injured. In a Sports Illustrated collaboration, REAL SPORTS correspondent Frank Deford examines this heartbreaking story.
For more information on the Mike Coolbaugh Memorial Fund,
please vist their site.
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